Interesting thread. Only one that I can think of from my town is Chris Resop, pitcher for the Pirates. Not from here but Chris Sale pitched for a college not too far from me, and Daniel Vogelbach of the Cubs is from the next city up.

(07-08-2012 12:41 PM)RobbinsDynasty Wrote: Some bigger cities have better odds. as with my area population is around 20,000. but tra thomas was in the nfl a few years back.

I know what you mean, I'm from a small town, it's a popular vacation spot put a smaller population of locals. Ross gload graduated with probably 150 people. Where Yaz is from, my dad went to school there, graduated 22 people. It's a big deal for smaller towns.

(07-08-2012 01:49 PM)aktlingit Wrote: Marshall Boze - few years older than me and it was a very small town so we all knew about him getting drafted by the Brewers. He made it to the pros for 25 games in 1996.

I've got some of his cards - very cool to see "Soldotna, AK" listed on the back I've thought about trying to get them all - only like 20 different cards.

I don't live there anymore though - just grew up there.

Yea, it's pretty cool. Not all of Ross Gload's cards say it but some do, "East Hampton, Ny". He's the only person I'm aware of to ever make it to the bigs and stay around for awhile.

Tom Kelly was born in a small town 15 minutes away from the small town I grew up in (pop. 2,000) and former Packers' LB Mike Hunt (yeah, you can't make it up) graduated from my high school and was a coach for my team in h.s. I now live in Eden Prairie, Minn. and Twins pitcher Cole Devries grew up here.